An investigation of the robustness of the nonlinear least-squares sphere fitting method to small segment angle surfaces

Precision Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-62

  Sun, Wenjuan ^a   Hill, Martyn ^a   McBride, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Nonlinear least squares; Small segment angle; Sphere fitting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCANNING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOX'S METHOD; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES; SMALL SEGMENT ANGLE; SPHERE FITTING; ZHANG'S ERROR PROPAGATION FUNCTION (EPF);

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 35748985879     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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